Toma nota.../Take note...

We are experiencing the most critical period in American history since 1945, and perhaps even the War Between the States. The crisis is a triple one: of public health, the economy, and the Constitution. The last of the three is also the greatest. The country has recently learned that the highest levels of state, including the presidency, have been corrupted by criminals and even traitors.

The recently completed Democratic primaries have been exploited by journalists and politicians to represent Barack Obama’s administration as having been a politically moderate one, not only by comparison with what a Democratic successor is likely bring on but in terms of Aristotelian balance and restraint. Republicans and conservatives who feared the worst when Obama was first elected in 2008—and said so—have been condescended to ever since as reactionary alarmists. Just look what he might have done, as the agenda of the new progressive Democratic candidates suggest—but didn’t do! The Republican Party on the other hand, by nominating and electing Donald Trump as President, thus radicalizing members of the opposition party (Obama’s Vice-President included), have only themselves to blame for the present enflamed political situation. The most recent disclosures made last week by the Department of Justice concerning l’affaire Flynn should dispel forever the myth of Barack Obama’s “moderation,” and that of his presidential inner circle. Andrew McCarthy, adding this new evidence to what was already known about the case, has done a brilliant job of piecing the full story into a coherent and convincing narrative that appears to explain the facts as we have them so far. First published as an article in National Review, it has subsequently been posted on the internet.

As McCarthy says, the “what” of the matter has long been known: The FBI trapped General Flynn into making misstatements about his wholly conventional conversations with Russian Ambassador Kislyak regarding American economic sanctions that it could plausibly present as lies that would support a perjury charge and even perhaps prosecution, accomplishing in this way his removal as the new President’s National Security Advisor. The “why,” however, has never been satisfactorily explained. It is now. 

The Agency’s objective was decided in collaboration with officials of Obama’s administration in its last days in office. These included the President himself, Vice-President Biden—currently preparing to run for president himself against President Trump!—Susan Rice, Flynn’s predecessor in his job, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, and James Comey, then Director of the FBI. The four met at the White House on January 5, 2017 to lay their plans. Later Rice drafted a memo summarizing the meeting. “President Obama said,” she wrote in part, “he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.” She composed the memo, McCarthy notes, on the 20th of the month, as the FBI was preparing to get Flynn ousted from his job. The purpose of this collaborative effort was to ensure that the agency’s investigation of President Trump’s relations with the Russians would continue after the inauguration; fatally impeding the new Administration’s efforts to govern–and to reverse its predecessor’s policies especially–while continuing to ferret out the impeachable offenses it was confident of finding. By ridding the White House of Flynn, the conspirators supposed, they would be depriving it of its sole politically experienced hand, one whom they expected would prove loyal to the Chief Executive, not the FBI and the Deep State. Afterward, nothing would be easier than to arrange for a successor from the Swamp to succeed him.

Algunas de las ideas económicas de Aristóteles
como la defensa de la propiedad privada,
la legitimidad del uso del dinero,
la diferencia entre el valor de uso y el valor de cambio
y la importancia del comercio influyeron en la
Escuela Económica de Salamanca primero
y en la obra de Adam Smith después.

Considerado el Padre de la Ciencia Política y del Derecho Constitucional Comparado y precursor de la Ciencia Económica y del Liberalismo.

Aristóteles fue un sabio polímata, politólogo, filósofo, lógico y científico de la antigua Grecia. Durante dos mil años la mayor parte de los filósofos empezaban a construir su sistema de pensamiento apoyándose o adversando a Aristóteles.

De origen jonio nació en Estagira, reino de Macedonia, en el año 384 a.C., razón por la que se le llama el Estagirita. De manera que desde el punto de vista jurídico siempre fue un meteco, un extranjero en Atenas, sin derecho a participar en la vida pública. Lo cual se convierte en una ventaja para sus trabajos intelectuales sobre la polis pues le permite un cierto distanciamiento y objetividad, tan importante en las ciencias sociales.

Many commentators and experts argue that China has undergone such substantial changes that it is no longer a Communist, Maoist, or Marxist system, but a somehow moderate system of centralized capitalism.

Nonetheless, the current dictator has been consolidating his power in recent months and has been affirming it even further since the Covid-19 crisis unleashed. In fact, President Xi Jinping also leads the nation's Communist Party and he recently moved to be made president-for-life through the elimination of term limits. This means that he and his Party have shielded the traditional Chinese totalitarian system to effectively control all aspects of Chinese citizens' lives. In other words, their agenda is to maintain power through a sort of "Sinicization", forcing their subjects to comply with what they claim are "Chinese cultural norms".

However, this system is not part of a legitimate aspect of historical Chinese culture but of the Party's repressive policies truly reflective of militaristic, totalitarian (so called Communist) rule violently forced upon the Chinese people since Mao Zedong grab power 70 years ago.

Among the most outstanding repressive signs of this regime are the coercive family planning policies that go so far as to force abortions, as well as spying on its population through video and other digital monitoring (e.g. massive implementation of facial recognition with no legal procedures involved) and a system of measuring each citizen according to Party loyalty through centrally documented indexes called the "social credit score system", thus controlling each individual's social status and opportunities in their lives. In addition, China has a very limited degree of religious tolerance that allows a restricted practice of Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism only. No other belief is permitted; not even under state control.

The question is whether it is necessary to adopt the Chinese formula and shut the whole country down,"

The last ten days have had the virtue of inserting us into a worldwide reality show aimed at paralyzing our brains with fear and turning the world at large into a immense farm of automatons.

We thus aimlessly run to the supermarket to grab everything in sight.

We have cleaned each closet about ten times.

We have cooked a pool of jams, soups and sauces.

We have ironed and starched grandma's table cloths and bed spreads for the first time in ten years.

And we have cleaned our computer systems of digital garbage.

A price tag for this laborious dedication to domestic chores and digital cleanliness just for the U.S. would be close to $317 billion. Indeed, the Bureau of Economic Analysis has found that if the value of household production were included in gross domestic product (GDP), it would add approximately $3.8 trillion to the U.S. economy.

In contrast the country shutdown will most probably munch up about 10% of our GDP, which means we will lose about $ 1.9 trillion.

To be sure, should we add the losses attributable to paralysis in the most vulnerable activities such as transportation services, restaurants, lodging and entertainment services, the tab reaches $175 billion per month or $2.1 trillion a year or 14% of consumer spending. And the ancillary cost in reduced payrolls represents $574 billion.